The scan on the GM is for Discoveries, i.e. systems discovered by others, or you. So yeah, just luck
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No Man's Sky |OT2| Maths Effect
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The scan on the GM is for Discoveries, i.e. systems discovered by others, or you. So yeah, just luck
They probably limited how far you can look because the ship isn't being rendered when inside of it, only the bits of the cockpit are actually there. Being able to look as far as the bubble can with the explorer would break the illusion.
What happen when you go through? Do you lose your ship?
eyeball_kid
Member
That's a reasonable explanation, yeah. But kind of funny that the explorer ship has a more constricting range of view. You'd think the explorer ships would have a 180º cockpit bubble, if not even close to 270º.
I still would love to have a rear-view option for ships in general though. At least like a HUD screen. Would be really useful when dogfighting.
somme
Member
I've never found one without a door. I thought I had a couple of times but I'd just missed the ramp. They aren't always very obvious.
Ive been thinking of what Id like to see added to No Mans Sky in the future. And I think there are few things Ive been thinking about I havent seen much anywhere else.I have only time for one today (got like 10 ideas I feel like they could realistically put in) So here we go:
1. Building/plot creator.
So as we know well get base building and freighters in a future update as outlined by Hello Games after they listed the 1.03 patchnotes (the day 1 patch). However I feel like currently the buildings are way too samey. Understandable considering the size of the team. However I feel there is a way to get an almost endless amount of unique discoverable things on a planet and that is through a kind of building editor (think of Spore Building editor)
Imagine you acquire your Freighter after much work (or you stole it, you bastard) and you sit down in your fancy control room. And it has a button that takes you in a some kind of holodeck/editor room where you can construct buildings.
At first, what you can build is limited by the size of the editor space. Which you can upgrade numerous times until it mirrors the size of the flat ground/plateaus that are around buildings in the current game in radius with a 128 meter height limit.
Its not only buildings you can place on that plot however. You also can put down any tree or creatures youve ever scanned and that will wander around. And any trees and rocks as well. You also can put some voxel terrain down and give the area a more natural look if thats what youre going for.
Besides being a base for yourself however here is the big thing which would make this extra cool:
You can upload your base like a discovery and then gets redistributed to other players. Replacing one of the regular building spots by a user made area which the player who discovers it can scan all the stuff, knowing who made it, where he found the creatures and planets and so forth!
Encountering those would be fairly rare of course, not every planet would have them. But it would be something pretty awesome or undoubtedly phallic (at times) to come across.
You could even expand the feature more and let people make dungeons and challenges other players have to get through to get some sort of treasure!
1. Building/plot creator.
So as we know well get base building and freighters in a future update as outlined by Hello Games after they listed the 1.03 patchnotes (the day 1 patch). However I feel like currently the buildings are way too samey. Understandable considering the size of the team. However I feel there is a way to get an almost endless amount of unique discoverable things on a planet and that is through a kind of building editor (think of Spore Building editor)
Imagine you acquire your Freighter after much work (or you stole it, you bastard) and you sit down in your fancy control room. And it has a button that takes you in a some kind of holodeck/editor room where you can construct buildings.
At first, what you can build is limited by the size of the editor space. Which you can upgrade numerous times until it mirrors the size of the flat ground/plateaus that are around buildings in the current game in radius with a 128 meter height limit.
Its not only buildings you can place on that plot however. You also can put down any tree or creatures youve ever scanned and that will wander around. And any trees and rocks as well. You also can put some voxel terrain down and give the area a more natural look if thats what youre going for.
Besides being a base for yourself however here is the big thing which would make this extra cool:
You can upload your base like a discovery and then gets redistributed to other players. Replacing one of the regular building spots by a user made area which the player who discovers it can scan all the stuff, knowing who made it, where he found the creatures and planets and so forth!
Encountering those would be fairly rare of course, not every planet would have them. But it would be something pretty awesome or undoubtedly phallic (at times) to come across.
You could even expand the feature more and let people make dungeons and challenges other players have to get through to get some sort of treasure!
I've come across these buildings without doors a couple of times as well. Every single one of them was either fully or partially submerged in water. I'll record a video next time I find one.
You can go back to your ship.Yeah I used to miss the ramp all the times. But this one was different: https://youtu.be/MRBOXF0RWeM
Maybe because it was abandoned? Yet I did find another submerged structure that you could enter...
Edit: ^ ah, seems to be normal.
Aenima
Member
If the building has some goo plants growing inside and around the terminal, its an Abandoned Building. They just serve to interact with the terminal to learn a new blueprint.
Nostremitus
Member
This is how it feels to play No Man's Sky... If only the flag had Hello Games logo instead.
I'm hoping the new cloud tech he talked about does something significant like this. Sometimes the sky just looks awful and there isn't nearly enough look into the black abyss moments.
I've named the galaxy and planet in your honor. It's full of Emeril and Nickle.
Not sure what kind of name I'd find...
Not that I'd find out anytime soon. They weren't kidding when they said they were spreading people all over the place. If I get how this thing works, imagine a top down view of the galaxy is the Mercedes logo, Cochese, you and I started at each end of the 3 branches >.>
BizzyBum
Member
This is how it feels to play No Man's Sky... If only the flag had Hello Games logo instead.
That and add about 20 outposts in each background.
WordAssassin
Member
When I drive on surface roads I'm using the normal booster, when I get on the freeway it's Pulse Jump to my off ramp.
This game has ruined me.
I named it Raist, after you. The galaxy is NMSOT. Also, it has Vortex Cubes.Not sure what kind of name I'd find...
Not that I'd find out anytime soon. They weren't kidding when they said they were spreading people all over the place. If I get how this thing works, imagine a top down view of the galaxy is the Mercedes logo, Cochese, you and I started at each end of the 3 branches >.>
R_thanatos
Member
Just a quick question.. When shooting at the Pirates.. Do you ever hit the star ships?
I made that mistake a couple of times and they start attacking me even if it wasn't on purpose and in the heat of the fight
i make a point to never fire when a trade ship is in the vicinity/direction i'll always way untill they move along to minimise any risk
TheCochese
Banned
Cubetopia in the yet-unnamed system:
SKOJ:02CA:0077:03AA:00BB
Cubes and Aluminum filled caves.
SKOJ:02CA:0077:03AA:00BB
Cubes and Aluminum filled caves.
So basically you haven't even left the Region. Meanwhile I warp through the whole fucking galaxy.
TheCochese
Banned
I was getting everything maxed out. I'm up to 25M in units, trying to decide if I leave this planet before I hit 50M.
I had one like that.
A tiny little fly that I'd never have even noticed if not for the red dot.
It pays to planet hop in this game. I make it a point to at least land for a bit on every planet in each system I visit. Some really great places hidden away.. Although yes, a lot of planets look the same. You really have to explore. Some musings on various places:
I always go to systems with moons. After 32 hours... I finally found a planet with two moons. Of course, they are on opposing sides so you can never see both at the same time while on the planet. That's too bad. Is it possible to find a planet with more than two?
I found a planet full of life, 14 different species. That's the most I've seen on one anyway. I finally saw some predator/prey relationships going. A T-Rex type Dino with two horns and a spiked tail was rampaging around. Some pretty basic animations so it was anticlimactic. Oh, and also found some butterfly type flying insects. There were 8 in one spot flying around, that was pretty awesome.
Just found a planet with drop pods everywhere. Why can't it be crashed ships? Seriously 8 in extremely close proximity, and I could keep going. Kinda neat I guess.
I always go to systems with moons. After 32 hours... I finally found a planet with two moons. Of course, they are on opposing sides so you can never see both at the same time while on the planet. That's too bad. Is it possible to find a planet with more than two?
I found a planet full of life, 14 different species. That's the most I've seen on one anyway. I finally saw some predator/prey relationships going. A T-Rex type Dino with two horns and a spiked tail was rampaging around. Some pretty basic animations so it was anticlimactic. Oh, and also found some butterfly type flying insects. There were 8 in one spot flying around, that was pretty awesome.
Just found a planet with drop pods everywhere. Why can't it be crashed ships? Seriously 8 in extremely close proximity, and I could keep going. Kinda neat I guess.
Well, looks like I hadn't seen the Gravitino Ball's true form till now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSl8lpeLklA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSl8lpeLklA
Fushichou187
Member
And you can harvest that? Haha that's awesome. Yeah there are at least two different forms for pearls as well that I've seen.
SynthFetish
Member
I laughed for a while the first time I saw that.
First time I saw them was on a peaceful Sentinel moon that was dead. I thought they were neat and realized what they were when I couldn't scan them.
Having dealt with a lot of aggro sentinels planets before landing on this moon I was like, "Man this place is so nice and quiet, now I'm gonna have to cause some shit.
"SolidusDave
Member
Getting more crashes again... this time randomly.
Might also be in conjunction with the PS4 beta firmware of course.
Might also be in conjunction with the PS4 beta firmware of course.
This also makes you go the same speed as other ships, so you can fly alongside them.
Fushichou187
Member
Current coordinates:
YUDH:01B5:0081:01B5:0047
Just downing trade ships towards that trophy since I'm not kitted out for sentinel ships or pirates yet.
The Bernal Heights System
Planet "Dirty Bird"
See ya in the World!
YUDH:01B5:0081:01B5:0047
Just downing trade ships towards that trophy since I'm not kitted out for sentinel ships or pirates yet.
The Bernal Heights System
Planet "Dirty Bird"
See ya in the World!
You're not super far from Cochese
SolidusDave
Member
Is this normal:
While farming pearls I accidently reached level 4 alarm sentinel status and figured I could see my first Walker. It was docile as the alarm went already off. Destroying it gave me level 5 instantly (which was no joke) and that persisted even after killing seemingly all Sentinels.
Even after entering buildings etc.
No other sentinels spawned though, not even the standard drones.
When I left the planet I was greeted by a Sentinel ship warping in (also my first). Destroying it set the alarm to level one and I got 3-4 more waves of ships with increasing numbers.
Then the alarm phase was finally gone.
While farming pearls I accidently reached level 4 alarm sentinel status and figured I could see my first Walker. It was docile as the alarm went already off. Destroying it gave me level 5 instantly (which was no joke) and that persisted even after killing seemingly all Sentinels.
Even after entering buildings etc.
No other sentinels spawned though, not even the standard drones.
When I left the planet I was greeted by a Sentinel ship warping in (also my first). Destroying it set the alarm to level one and I got 3-4 more waves of ships with increasing numbers.
Then the alarm phase was finally gone.
Aenima
Member
That was the 1st gravitino balls i saw in the game, just recently i found ones that was a bright light sphere.
Thers also 2 forms of Vortex Cubes. Some floaty red ones that atract sentinels, and other ones u pick from inside caves and have the exact shape of the vortex cube icon, those ones dont atract sentinels.
When i got the level 5 wanted thing it also dont got away, i exited the planet and when the sentinel ships appeared i entered the planet again and thats when the wanted level started to fade away untill it was gone.
That seems to be a glitch. I've encountered it when escaping from walkers and into a building. Sometimes your wanted level instantly drops. The walker might be walking away or simply patrolling outside. If you attack it you gain an instant 5 star level and it persists till you quit or exit the system even if sentinels don't show up
PintSizedSlasher
Member
Don't know if it says more about me or the developers, but I'm seeing donuts everywhere.
Last week I found these:
Today I landed on a planet with these rock formations:
Last week I found these:
Today I landed on a planet with these rock formations:
SolidChamp
Banned
Wait, how would someone get there if they had your coordinates? You can't enter coordinates, can you?
SolidusDave
Member
I see. The game seems to get very wonky when you don't fight the Sentinels immediately.
Warped (on purpose) into my first system discovered by someone else. No planets visited/uploaded
Went to one of the moons and it's such a nice planet, too. Couldn't even bring myself to troll with the naming.
OuterLimits
Member
Some of the systems bright neon colors kind of hurt my eyes a bit. Bright green or orange especially makes me cringe. I do enjoy when I get a more dark space system.
Excited about the updates in the future. I actually kind of like some of the lore in the game. The Monolith stories are somewhat interesting. However, much like everything else in the game, it's very shallow and really needs to be expanded upon.
SolidusDave
Member
This is living.
eyeball_kid
Member
Speaking of bright neon colors, I warped into a system tonight that basically looks like a nebula of Mountain Dew. So of course I had to name the system Keighley in tribute to early NMS advocate Geoff Keighley. So far the planets are Dew Prime, Tostito V, and V'ga. Dew Prime is actually the first blue-skied planet I've been to, but it's quite desolate, except for appropriately green lakes.
It's strange that the daytime skies in this game are one color, but then it turns night and suddenly the sky has completely changed to whatever the nebula color is. In the case of Dew Prime it's blue during the day and Mountain Dew at night.
On another note, have any of you found oceans or lakes that are teeming with life? Every time I see an ocean or lake I get excited and dive in, only to find it's often devoid of any fauna. If I'm lucky there will be one little group of something floating around. I guess it's impractical to expect hundreds of fish swimming around.
They're coordinates in 3D space. x,y,z essentially. If you know yours, and your destination, you can get there. Assuming I didn't fuck up my analysis of it.
But yeah, you can find your way through the galaxy with this. Also if you really like a planet and you HAVE TO GO BACK KATE, or want to share it, you can use that too.
MoonsaultSlayer
Member
I was on a planet last night that was considered a hot planet, but it also had tolerable temps. I think this had an affect on the terrain because it was mostly rock with a tie dye effect. Kind of like that rainbowy effect when certain metals are heated and then cooled.
Like this:
Named the planet "Rainbow Metal"
I have a few other planetary transmissions to get to before getting to that one, but I'll point it out again when I do share it. I love this game!
Like this:
Named the planet "Rainbow Metal"
I have a few other planetary transmissions to get to before getting to that one, but I'll point it out again when I do share it. I love this game!
R_thanatos
Member
is that rare ? when i was farming gravitino balls i found a lot of those....
and just assumed it was normal to find them